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Dragged kicking & screaming into the future
Wonder of wonders: I'm sending this from a smartphone, and I'm dictating this post by voice (the punctuation sucks and I am doing that by hand, but it at least seems to know what I'm saying). Next thing you know I'll be posting photos. All I ever wanted was to live in the past with my 1911's, steam engines, body odor, smallpox, and cholera. I guess it's true: you can't go home again.
WWJMBD?
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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Smartphone? Well, I actually don't need one. I'm home a lot, being retired and partially disabled, so I really haven't the need to use one. Were I still working and especially if I were self employed (consultant or plumber or electrician or whatever) I'd absolutely need one.
As to the phone knowing what you are saying, my girlfriend knows what I'm thinking and I simply gave up on anything else. I really really don't want a phone smarter than I am either.
May we inquire, what are you gonna use the smartphone for?
My wife wanted a GPS for the cars (she has to go to new destinations if not daily, then certainly weekly). I got bit by the in-car navigation bug when I went back to Illinois this summer and borrowed a relative's car and Garmin to get around. The printed directions off Mapquest, Yahoo, Google, etc. . .get it done, but having the chick tell you when to turn is handy - and safer. Plus, it's a lot easier to change the game plan in flight. We also liked the idea of being able to find where, say, the local Chinese restaurant is in an alien city. The new phones do both, so that made more sense than buying a dedicated GPS. Once I figure out how to drive the thing, I'll probably download a couple ballistic apps to help recordkeep the handloading process. These programs do the math that I never ever could.
What I WON'T be doing is using it to record my calories, heart rate, when and how much I poop, etc... That stuff can wait until I cyborg the entire body, and can plug the diagnostic computer into my nostrils.
I'm gonna have to shop around and see if anyone has done Joe Walsh's Analog Man as a ringtone.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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Not so fast, he didn't say a thing about a .270!
Nope. It was close, but we got Galaxy S4's. My wife's body seems to generate some strange field that kills batteries prematurely - watches, cell phones, whatever. You can get a new battery for a Samsung. Not so much on a iPhone. Factor in other annoyances like cost and proprietary charger plugs and the Apples were out.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I'll first have to see if this "smart" phone is smart enough to discover some legitimate reason for the .270's existence. I'm certainly not that smart.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I got a new phone last Saturday. Went there with the intention of getting an I-phone 4.... Walked out with a Razr M.
Guess the phone is smarter than I am since I use it as a phone, can kinda take a picture (don't know what to do with it), and find texting a PITA...miss my direct connect.
Matt
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
Either your young or still have good eyes. Love smart phones but they are to dang hard to see.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
That I can't see. Even with the S4's relatively big (almost awkwardly big) screen, real, mechanical, hand-sized keyboards and mice or mouse pads are a lot easier to deal with than tiny touchscreen keyboards for your thumbs, auto-rotating screens, and enlarging a section of screen with the two-finger spread technique. So far, I see them as a "camping computer" - a camp chair gets it done, but it's not a Lazy Boy; a camp stove gets it done, but it's not a Wolf gas range; an air mattress gets it done, but it ain't memory foam.
Though I guess if you're of the age where video games were played on Nintendo "ninja thumbs" control pads instead of an Atari nine-pin joystick, it may be easier.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I'm 87 and wear tri-focal glasses.
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
We moved there in 1955, only 10 years after WWII and though there was electricity, running water, indoor plumming (In most houses), jet airplanes and we were about to go into outer space, things were still on the primative side to say the least. Spending the second half of the 50s in Seadrift was n educational experience in itself. It was like stepping into a time machine.
I will never forget the phones that were there then. They were on a pedestal that was about 10”-12” tall with a crank on the side, and a mouth piece you talked into, and it had a little yoke you hung the receiver in when you got through talking, which also terminated the call. We had to crank it to wring the local operator. She would come on and ask, “Number Please?”, and we would tell her the three digit number we wished to ring. There were no 4 digit numbers in Seadrift at that time, so that tells you how big the town was. Believe it or not, sometimes I wish for a return to those days, not just for the phone’s sake, but because things in general were much more simple.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Rip the song if you have it to your computer desktop. You can then just move the file into the ringtones folder as is, or use something free like Audacity to select part of the song and save an an MP3 file and move into the ringtones folder. Took me about 5 minutes to do that for my wife's droid. Created a couple Patsy Cline ringtones for her.
Winston Churchill
If you haven't already gotten a case for it, might I suggest......
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Glove-9307001-DropSuit-Motorola/dp/B009S7QWUS/ref=sr_1_1?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1378013221&sr=1-1&keywords=Body+Glove+9307001+DropSuit+Rugged+Case+for+Motorola+Droid+Razr+M
....and for a screen cover.....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009IV1E52/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Both of these are very inexpensive, and VERY high quality items.
Here the be, in action.
I tend to break phones......a lot. So far I haven't broken the phone or scratched the screen.....that's actually pretty high praise.
I've been thunking seriously about an old farts cell phone, that's much less complicated and buying a rudimentary one like the JITTERBUG!
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
The confusion of high-stress situations being what it is. . .does Apple's warranty cover damages sustained when an AR-15 bolt carrier tries to chamber a round off the top of your phone?
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Baby steps....
I have never put a phone in a case so far. Haven't broken one yet (knock on wood). I do have a screensaver on it.......
I just switched to a Tracfone very basic dumb as a brick model. No camera, no Qwerty keyboard, no nothing except phone calls and rudimentary text. I'm happy with it, service is dirt cheap and it fits in my pocket and never gets used, just like my old phone. The only thing that would make it better would be a rotary dial.
A wireless device, about the size of a pack of cigarettes but much thinner, that makes you with no effort and small expense able to comunicate with over 75% of humanity in a matter of seconds, find your way anywhere in the planet, carry your personal library, music collection, watch videos, movies, television plus record high quality images, videos and sound to share instantly, buy, find, anything you need or desire that puts so much information in tour pocket at the ready is simply amazing.
Damned you can even download the recipe for tostones...
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That's essentially how I see it. It's not that I don't appreciate the utility of a smartphone but I simply don't need its capability when I'm out and around. If I want to buy or order something, I can wait till I get home. Music is awful via small devices unless you've got powerful headphones, which defeats the mobility. Besides, when I'm out, I can use my car's CD player to listen to music and also, I'm usually with my girlfriend, so it would be kinda rude if I were to shut her out so I could listen to MY tunes. I really don't want to watch Citizen Kane or Apocalypse Now or Blade Runner or whatever on a 2" screen, either. I do suppose I could contact 75% of humanity but it's only about 0.0004% whom I actually might want to talk to anyway.
Now, were I in a mobile business, such as being a consultant engineer, or salesman, or a tradesman (plumber, electrician, etc) then of course a smartphone would be mandatory, as you're always on the road and still conducting biz. In my private detective novels, my very realistic PI (who has smartphones, GPS, all the newest electronics gear) jokes about "fictional" old-school PIs who don't even have cellphones (Longmire?), knowing they'd be out of business in 6 months.
I think that the smartphone features are keen, but I'm not gonna lug a bigger, more expensive piece of gear around with me if I don't use the features, regardless of how neat they are for other folks. I only want to make and receive calls, and for this I'm really pleased that my little flip-cell works great. I've got my girlfriend's number programmed to ring per Beethoven's "Fur Elise" but otherwise it's just beep beep -- which I may or may not answer, as the spirit moves me.